I would be surprised the amico even lasts through Spring at this point

They have known that there will not be an ecosystem for the console since last year. The way the RFIDs have been configured covers some possible scenarios and the most likely one is its release as a mini console with all the games inside but only a handful unlocked. In order to play the rest, you need to buy the "physical products". The CEO change is a charade, they need to change the "vision" in order to release something, anything. With the cult expecting all the promises from Tallarico, having him as CEO made this "redesign" impossible If it's released, it will be in short numbers just to appease the SEC and some "lucky" backers and to prove the "haters" they (barely) did release something. After that, it's over. The new CEO will be the one to be blamed and Tallar-ego goes scot-free with his cult praising him even more. BTW, it seems they managed to convince Blaze to license a second cart for the Evercade.

Love the jab at RTUSA, he deserves that and so much more. Dude is fucking clown shoes.

I can't disagree with you. It may honestly be the console that has bought me the most entertainment in ages.

It's getting old and repetitive though.

Ha ha!

Seems like a remake of the Coleco Chameleon show.

Comment of the year! 😆

Don’t worry, you guys still gave us Crytek

Get a refund! Hurry, Intellivision is broke. Get your money refunded NOW, before Intellivision files for bankruptcy!

​@@worldofretrogameplay6963 They're referring to the German government grant, not the preorder

Jokes on you, they never got FCC certification to begin with lol

@@devilmikey00 at the state this project seems to be in they are nowhere close even moving towards any form of compliance testing.

@Lassi K (account change cancelled, maybe) they already walked back wireless charging. Their current solution requires contact at specific points

@@LelandReview …they don’t want to lose $$$ on Tommy’s 💩system project💩. Tommy’s calls always go to voicemail & they somehow always get “accidentally” deleted.

@@LelandReview

They need to release an omnibus of all the Tommy voicemails.

Welp i mean those liar preachers who use "seed faith" scam ppl constantly and have private jets

I hate religion so that doesn't work with me lol

A tale as old as time.

@William Burns 🤣

@@MrCreepyKitty Wisdom Tree put product out, tho.

The ouya sold 200,000 units and only cost 100$. The amico will sell at most 10,000 units, assuming a miracle. The ouya was a bad idea executed well. This is a bad idea executed by clowns.

Ouya did one thing right - a simple, achievable physical design!

200,000 is now the “Ouya Line” that poor selling consoles will be judged against. So we can say the Atari VCS is selling “below the Ouya Line.”

​@@davidowen1506 The Ouya hardware was was executed well . On the software side their Free The Games Fund program was a clusterfuck of mismanagement .

Also you could tell the Ouya Team pulled out all the stops to get it mass marketed in a lot of media. Can you imagine CNET talking about the Amico? They covered Ouya. Tommy was fuming from Arstechnica talking about info leaks and was complacent shooting the shit with middling KZfaqrs.

Yeah, that whole thing gets scummier and scummier by the day. That wasn't just epic mismanagement or incompetence, that was straight up scamming folks.

@@LelandReview My guess is they paid him well to be the front man. "This is never coming out Tommy. I need you to attack anyone who talks about about the Amico like a rabid dog. Lets put the squeeze on these rubes."

Yep, they literally said people were not buying a game, and the cult marvelled over the games.

Both

Intellivision sold those junk game boxes to make their payroll. Lol! It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure that one out.

I agree with everything except that Tommy will relocate to Italy instead of Greece. Wish you well.

@@LelandReview Hello Lelanders. In a way we do have a VERY expensive gaming console option and that is called A High end PC with a top of the line CPU and a top of the line GPU such as an RTX 3080TI or RTX 3090. Wish you well.

@@xenosaga1348 He can be extracted from Italy for fraud but not Greece. 😂

I believe you’re somehow from the future and your statement is fact.

@Lelanders "crazy expensive" options already exist. Yippy Yappy already mentioned Gaming PC. There's also the exA-Arcadia, perfect "for whales".

What is worse -- Tommy saying it, or Rich thinking about it for a few seconds and then actually AGREEING?!

Unfortunately, it is not.

@@PatTheNESpunk You missed out on playing a snippet of Tommy Ouyamico's "Mean mr Richards" while discussing it. ;)

I don't get the problem. Prairie dogs are pests and hunters are needed to keep their numbers under control. Killing destructive animals doesn't make you a murderer.

Holy shit that video is so disturbing. Fine if you need (or want) to control the population, but documenting your little giggles and excitement about sending a little rodent’s head through its butt is incredibly twisted.

@@LelandReview "Sure Nicks vids were tasteless." Giggling like a schoolgirl while killing animals for sport is a bit more than "tasteless." Get fucked.

Remember, it’s “95 percent completed”.

@@cartmann94 All 27 parts are in now! Next week they will have 15.

remember it was just covid and a chip shortage that was delaying this thing and how we were all haters for suggesting otherwise cause tommy told us that was the reason rofl

Finished... Just not in a good way.

You've been a "hater" through this whole ordeal! ;)

They have already used up all their lives and the game they are playing doesn't feature the Konami Code.

​@@TheVoidofNothing11 As per Nick Richards the interns keep check on all the videos I upload lol.

Don't forget the LCD screens are also on the chopping block. lol. This thing is never coming out.

@@NinjaKittyRetro That's insane. One of the many reasons they're failing.

That's nuts

That might be my playlist. Just added this video to it. What a long, strange trip it's been!

@@jeremyjones5455 yes sir it is your playlist. I was amazed when I found it and saw how many videos it was. Thank you for putting that together

@@RadHazard I had to make it easy for myself to keep re-watching these videos, because I'm enjoying Pat and Ian's coverage of it so much. 😁

@@jeremyjones5455 I saw yours a few days ago, and listened to it all! It's very interesting how in the very first video Pat & Ian actually liked the idea of the console and wished Tommy well, but simply doubted if it could be succesful in this day and age. Right after that all the attacks began.

Right off the rails to grind atop a Heartline Twister. Even with the added excitement, Amico 2 can't manage a rating above 1.00 during testing.

Technically anyone's who's had an idea and written down something about it at any point is "in pre-production". It means nothing.

“Pre-production” has a very clear meaning. It means “not in production.”

@@billcook4768 they should have pre-produced the debt they are in so this would have put a fire under their asses to actually build something in 2020, 2021 and 2022. What a waste of German money.

Calling any game console a “Nintendo” as a catch-all when you don’t know any other names has been around since the 90’s.

This is assuming anywhere will actually want to stock this shit show

Not just that, but Nintendo's been a toy company for several decades before that, and a company of many talents to have existed for over 130 years as a national brand. They know how to squeak by on a shoestring and make that shoestring do something magic. Game & Watch is a repurposed calculator, and yet that series lasted until 1991.

@@XanthinZarda 70% of kids in the early 80s had a game & watch made by Nintendo in Sweden. Bergsala got rich and calculated their sales, they are still selling Nintendo games as their publisher here.

The one thing they have in the “not a scam” column is that they are giving people who request their money back quick refunds.

Because everybody knows what people really wants in a blockchain is a proprietary, closed-source implementation that is kept entirely on one company's internal server!

@William Burns Funnily enough, they actually do. Their "Karma" engine that supposedly adapts to the player skill is apparently just a buzzphrase like "blast processing" and Tommy has even admitted it as such a number of times, yet they still put it on all of their fundraising campaigns.

Well i mean preachers and Trump do it all the time

Remember when Ashens gave his opinion on the Amico NFTs and game boxes? I want him to tear up the console for this reason.

@William Burns Tom Brady and those annoying crypto commercials must be the next generation.

Custom molds are stupid expensive. Their finances are wide open due to the SEC filings and I saw nothing that indicated actual expenses for production.

Bible Buffet is where it's at! Oh, and Super 3D Noah's Ark :)

@@KeithPhillips Super 3D Noah's Ark, but in the System Shock 1 engine. For that extra authentic, "Struggle against the trials" feeling.

I've taken notice at the number of self-described 'faith-based' people in the comments section both disowning this thing, as well as swearing game knowledge that the people they know still refer to video games generically as 'Nintendos', like you'd refer to Kleenexs or Band-Aids. Certainly no one that I know of, Christian or not, would know what on Earth an 'Intellevision' is; even the non-tech knowledgeable would know what Nintendo or Solitaire are (or 'Word with Friends' for the mobile phone crowd).

Can you redesign the Ship of Theseus?

It's a good question, but one I don't think there's a valid reply for, unless Chris Hansen is in the room. (Since you know, Ariel and _most_ Disney Princesses are some form of underage.)

Okay, even with the insane pivot that the Amico is planning, what exactly would be the advantage of keeping the phone pad over a more traditional 12 button system? Just try to imagine something like Joy Mech Fight or Street Fighter 2 for a moment.

If that CP1610 unit makes them 400% profit and can be built by Tommy's wife and kids in the garage, they can start tomorrow cuz it would be no less ridiculous than what they've got going on now. Glad I never put any money up for this seriously DUMB product.

@@XanthinZarda I would explain why we need the phone pad, but I'm far too busy working on my machine which helps people recognize jokes. It also needs to run on 1k.

Bob - are you from Europe by any chance? Where the reverse . and , in numbers? Any conversation around 2022 sales should be in the one hundred fifty range, not a hundred fifty thousand.

Forget SmurfJT, try watching TurboJoe. Holy sh!t! That guy is nuts!

@A Volpe Saying a guy pimps out his wife is unrelated and disgusting.

@A Volpe Family need to be left out of this stuff. Tallarico was dick enough to say things about my family; not stooping to his very short level. Enough to be said about his failed company and games system.

Lipstick on a plastic pig.

@William Burns Is that why all the Christians I know (myself included) loath modern 'Christian' pop music? (also, I had never heard of "PureFlix" until you mentioned it--no jive). Anyway, they're a long ways off from pivoting towards their entire library of games being faith-ithized games in the vein of the Noah's Ark 3D, etc. They don't even have one such game to show for it, let alone a marketable library; and little to no funding left to even finish and launch the console and games they already have, let alone pivot, redesign the console, make a new series of games featuring faith themes, and start over from scratch. They would have to rebrand their image (such as what's even left) to such an extent they just as well not even call itself Intellivision, but Noahvision Games or something outrageous like that. That's a looooong ways off from the 51 Clubhouse/WiiPlay style of casual games they were giving the vibe of to start with three or so years ago. And even if they did, they'd have made a lot more bank publishing those games for the scores of Christians brandishing smartphones. No matter how you look at it, it just makes no sense. This is nothing more than, no pun intended, a Hail Mary to find a demographic, any demographic, to buy this thing, with no strategy to speak of to make it appealing to that audience. I just don't think they have anything, and are grasping for straws.

@William Burns There's the problem with your analogy. You don't need PureFlix to watch those movies. You can watch many of them on Amazon Prime or Netflix. PureFlix as a service exists because that audience wants nothing but those "good Christian movies" available and nothing else. The Amico already has games that the PureFlix audience would object to. Games with bombs? Gambling games? Games with realistic tanks and explosions? Nuclear destruction? Games with magic (WITCHCRAFT!)? The name "Night Stalker" would set off a "Won't someone think of the children" mom. Most PureFlix parents wouldn't want a console with such wicked content let alone one that costs $300+.

I mean they said if the latest fundraising campaign fails (which, so far, it has) they'd only be able to go a few more months. This whole thing happening right now is a desperate attempt to get more money and failing to do so. This'll be wrapped up within the next 6 months.

@@devilmikey00 I guess so eh, we'll see

It goes on as long as they can find suckers to give them money. Hopefully, it shuts down quickly. But there are a lot of stupid people out there to tap.